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Dialog® NewsRoom Tops 11,000 Sources, Adding Over 82,000 New Articles Daily

Online Service Enhanced With Top 100 U.S. Newspapers, Key Time Inc. Magazines, and Enhanced Features, Including Simplified Document Handling for Easier Sharing Within Departments

CARY, N.C., USA (April 11, 2005) — Dialog, a Thomson (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, said today that its Dialog® NewsRoom service, a database of current and archived news reporting from around the world, now has more than 11,000 content sources.

About 82,000 new articles are now added to the database daily at www.dialognewsroom.com.

In the last 12 months, Dialog has added more than 3,000 new sources to the Dialog NewsRoom service, including most of the top 100 U.S. daily newspapers. Additionally, key journals are being added, including six magazines published by Time Inc. (a unit of Time Warner Inc.): Time, Fortune, Money, Sports Illustrated, People and Entertainment Weekly.

Other new content includes 21 regional and local daily newspapers from across the United States published by the Gannett Company, making Dialog NewsRoom one of the most comprehensive U.S. news offerings in the industry. Additional sources include publications and news services from Australia and Asia, enhancing the service for international business.

“We believe Dialog NewsRoom is the best aggregated news and business intelligence service available in the professional information services marketplace,” said Cheryl Curran, Dialog NewsEdge senior vice president, strategic marketing. “It has a broad, diverse and continually growing content collection, plus tools and features to help searchers find the precise news reporting they need and then share it with others in their enterprises.”

Added Curran: “Astute decision-making often starts with reliable, relevant news reporting about markets, competitors and industries. Dialog NewsRoom is the one-stop source to find the right news reports from across town or around the world, quickly and accurately.”

Dialog NewsRoom’s 11,000 sources include newspapers, newswires, specialty newsletters, broadcast transcripts, trade media and scholarly journals, drawn from 130 countries in English and 13 other languages. More than 90 percent of the sources are active, with new reporting added shortly after first publication. Many of the sources are archived up to 30 years.

The Dialog NewsRoom content collection also is indexed by 855,000 SmartTerms^SM, the underlying taxonomy (or indexing system) used in the database, producing more targeted results.

New & Improved Features

Dialog also said today that it has enhanced Dialog NewsRoom with a number of new and improved functionality features, among them:

• Public and Private folders, added for more control over document sharing across a department or enterprise. Documents in public folders are available to all authorized users.
• A new shopping cart, enabling users to save or print a list of retrieved articles in a batch, improving user’s workflow and saving valuable time.
• A summary of search criteria, now displayed above the title list with complete details of the most recent search completed.

Dialog NewsRoom is available as a stand-alone service (www.dialognewsroom.com) or as a component of other Dialog services. Dialog offers a range of subscription options for Dialog NewsRoom customers, including flat-fee pricing and enterprise-wide access plans.

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About Dialog and The Thomson Corporation
Dialog, a pioneer in developing the technology behind electronic information retrieval, is the world leader in providing online-based information services to organizations seeking competitive advantages in such fields as business, science, engineering, finance and law.

Today, the online services provided by Dialog — offered through the Dialog®, Dialog Profound®, Dialog DataStar®, Dialog NewsEdge® and Dialog Intelliscope® brands — give users the ability to precisely retrieve data from more than 1.4 billion unique records, accessible via the Internet or through delivery to enterprise intranets. Searchable content includes articles and reports from thousands of real-time news feeds, newspapers, broadcast transcripts and trade publications, plus research reports and analyst notes providing support for financial decision-making, as well as in-depth repositories of scientific and technical data, patents, trademarks and other intellectual property data. Information professionals and end-users at business, professional and government organizations in more than 100 countries prize Dialog services for their depth and breadth of content, precision searching and speed.

Based in Cary, N.C., USA, Dialog has operations in 27 other countries. Dialog (www.dialog.com) is a business of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC). With 2004 revenues of US$8.1 billion, Thomson (www.thomson.com) is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers.

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